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If you ever wondered how a guitar is built then you've come to the right place. Two of Australia's top luthiers, Robin Moyes and Jim Williams, began their craft in the 1970's and between them have gone on to build instruments for players such as Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, Bruce Mathiske, and Tommy ...

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The album War is a Wound, Peace is a Scar is an album of "cautious healing" by the . The musicians were all connected to the Vietnam War and use old instruments (some made from B-52 bomb parts) including the ancient K'ni single stringed 'mouth violin' to accompany songs sung to boost soldier's morale, ...

Oki Kano is an Ainu man and brought his to WOMADelaide 2017. The six piece band has had a big hand in the revival and refocusing of the music of the Ainu people - one of Japan's indigenous populations whose culture was "banned" by the Japanese government 300 years ago. Oki and his wife Rekpo play the ...

This week we're revisiting an interview we did last year. Director (Shine, Glass: A portrait of Philip in 12 Parts) has made a documentary called . It started with some Guadagninis for the Australian String Quartets new line-up, and became a journey into the rarefied world of vintage instruments ...